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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sol.net!spool.mu.edu!newsspool.sol.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.idt.net!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!hplntx!hplb!hpcpb!jocko.bri.hp.com!aslater From: aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com (Al Slater) Subject: Re: HP SureStore DAT8 DDS-2 work with FreeBSD ? Please help. Sender: news@bri.hp.com (News User) Message-ID: <EAu1vH.K9K@bri.hp.com> Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 09:18:53 GMT Reply-To: aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com References: <864189734.25500@dejanews.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: jocko.bri.hp.com Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41670 dpunjabi@nyx.net wrote: : I am looking to buy an HP Surestore DAT8 DDS-2 DAT tape drive. It is : supposedly a successor to the HP Surestore 6000 external drives. Yip. : I looked at HPs web site which has specs on this drive : (http://www.hp.com:80/tape/dat8.html), but it does'nt tell : if this one will work with FreeBSD. I also looked at FreeBSD's : hardware compatibility page, but it does not have this drive : listed since it is fairly new. Can't see any reason why not. Last time I hacked around the insides of st.c it was very unlikely it would send anything upsetting to any tape device that'll happily run in variable mode. : Anyone have this working with FreeBSD 2.2 ? Also, I am assuming : that this drive will be able to do backups on a small ethernet : LAN running freebsd machines. ISTR I've had it go okay in the lab with a very early version of firmware. FWIW, you'd want the dips set to 11011111 on the underside. As ever, there's only a finite set of things we can support in terms of hw/sw targets -- the myriad numbers of Unixen out there typically mean the big commercial bits. Not to say we won't help out people using Linux/FreeBSD if possible :-), it's just 'officially unsupported'. cheers, al (not speaking for HP..)